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From: jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI and Hypertext
Keywords: Intelligent Information Retrieval
Message-ID: <5680@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 89 00:19:49 GMT
References: <20607@bikini.cis.ufl.EDU> <406@datran2.uunet>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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In article <406@datran2.uunet> smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker) writes:

> I would welcome comments or other peoples experiences with this kind
> of knowledge representation system.

IMHO, one of the things that the field really needs to
concentrate on is full-text *DISAMBIGUATED* storage.

What I mean by disambiguation is this.  When I ask for
a search on the key "Cardinal" I want the system to ask me:

"Would you like information on:
   (1) Birds
   (2) Baseball
or (3) Religion?"

In other words, each key in the index should have a pointer
to the precise usage that the text it indexes uses it as.

Extra credit for parsing that last sentence.

:James
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:James P. Salsman (jps@CAT.CMU.EDU)